[kwlug-disc] question about Webcam, Mic, Headphone for Skype video calls

[B.S.]

Agreed, it 'just works' on Kubuntu 14.04. (Assuming multi-arch.)

Part of what Khalid is referring to is there was a fair span of time 
where there was/is a goofy circle of dependencies that were irritating 
to resolve - surrounding non/-i386 file versions. Being aptitude users 
it took some time for Khalid to come across the non-intuitive solution 
of using apt-get for that moment. Thankfully he happened to mention it 
some years in and I was able to leverage that info. [One of the few 
times I've encountered dependency hell.]

Note that I'm speaking to Skype installation - I only installed and 
logged in to it before giving it back to the user. I didn't play with 
use beyond testing that the laptop cam showed an image and the mic 
levels moved.

For the OP, I expect the live CD won't come with Skype, so a USB install 
to pull out at need may have the least footprint.


On 14-10-29 11:30 PM, Gordon Dey wrote:
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> On 14-10-29 12:50 PM, William Park wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:34:04AM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>>> One thing I found out was if you are running a 64 bit Linux, you
>>> need to enable multiarch, since Skype is built as i386 not
>>> amd64.
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>> Yeah, I found it odd.  Also, distro choices are old versions, eg.
>> Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Debian 7.0, Fedora 16, OpenSUSU 12.1
>> And, it requires Qt, which means Kubuntu.
>>
>> I'm running 64-bit Slackware, and it's 64-bit only.  So, not only
>> do I need webcam/mic, but also a 32-bit machine. :-(
>
> Hang on-I ran skype successfully with 14.04 ubuntu (gnome) x86_64 atom
> Acer Aspire. No problem, albeit the whole system was a bit slow--but
> it worked fine. I have no idea where the kubuntu/12.04/32b restriction
> appears to be coming from? Just because of the extra 32b libs?
> Anyway, the Cam-Mic here is a logitech "golf ball". Only trick is, you
> have to select it in the audio input preferences control-panel
> *before* starting up skype.